Good news, 0.5.0 is just released. We've put lots of work in this newly crafted version which has the focus on improving stability, adding new features and improving the overal experience of the controller.

This is a deprecation for the property ``signal_manager`` of the ``instance``. This means that ``self.instance.signal_manager``
needs to be replaced by ``self.context.signals`` to work with the life cycle changes in 0.8.0.
More info: https://github.com/PyPlanet/PyPlanet/issues/392

The old way will break your app from version 0.8.0

Feature: Add multiple configuration backends. You can now use JSON or YAML as configuration as well. This is in a beta
stage and can still change in upcoming versions. See the documentation for usage.

Feature: Add logging to file option for starting PyPlanet. You can set this up inside of your settings `base.py`.
More information can be found in the documentation for configuring PyPlanet.

Feature: Add detach switch to the PyPlanet starter so it can fork itself to the background and write a PID file.
More information can be found in the documentation for starting PyPlanet.

Feature: Add player attributes that can be set by apps for caching or maintaining user settings or data during the session. (Technical)

NEW: Best CPS Widget for Trackmania, shows the best times per checkpoint above the screen.
Add the new app to your apps.py: `'pyplanet.apps.contrib.best_cps'`. More info on the documentation pages of the app. (Big thanks to @froznsm)

NEW: Clock Widget, shows the local time of the players computer on the PyPlanet logo.
Add the new app to your apps.py: `'pyplanet.apps.contrib.clock'`. More info on the documentation pages of the app. (Big thanks to @froznsm)

NEW: Chat-based Vote App, want to have votes in the chat instead of the callvotes? Enable this app now!
Add the new app to your apps.py: `'pyplanet.apps.contrib.voting'`. More info on the documentation pages of the app.

Feature: Add folders to the /list interface. There are two types of folders, automatic folders based on facts and manual per player/admin folders.

It has been some time since last update. We are currently testing 0.6.0 with a release candidate. Will keep you posted when the stable version gets released. (You can however start installing 0.6.0-rc3 with pip install pyplanet==0.6.0-rc3 -U but please be aware, it can be unstable, also downgrading is not possible due to migrations).